Wireless Watchdogs

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Wireless Watchdogs is a leader in wireless lifecycle management. Established in 2001, we offer enterprises straightforward ways to manage the complex, time consuming aspects of wireless environments. Wireless Watchdogs aids IT / telecom departments and CIO’s in optimizing, managing and supporting large and complex wireless environments.

With mobile technology growing at a rapid pace, usage skyrocketing, rate plans changing, and lots of new services and features - corporate mobility programs are being stretched thin.

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Enterprise mobility provides a tech infrastructure that can create new opportunities in almost every aspect of a company’s operations. And when businesses implement a mobile device management solution to organize and oversee this ecosystem of mobile technology, it opens doors to new modes of innovation, disrupting the traditional status quo.
One such example of this innovation is the explosion of workplace and worker collaboration enabled by a connected workforce. Mobility has enabled workers to connect and work with one another in ways that weren’t possible in the past – and mobile device management provides critical assurance to business leaders that these collaborative efforts are still conducted through secure, regulated channels.
Supporting Remote Collaboration
The most significant change brought by effective mobile device management is the freedom for employees to work from remote locations. Laptops may have unchained computers from the office cubicle, but enterprise mobility has provided workers with valuable software and tools that couldn’t be accessed prior to the rise of mobile devices and the enterprise cloud.
This makes it possible for workers to go wherever their physical presence is needed, while still collaborating with co-workers back at the office. Whether employees leave to visit another branch of the business or simply stay at home with sick children, cloud-based collaboration tools make it easy to continue work without sacrificing productivity.
Providing High-Value Cloud-Based Solutions
Some businesses have historically been wary of using cloud-based technologies because of concerns about security. But cloud security has come a long way over the years, as has enterprise mobility and the ability to create secure connections to remote-hosted software.
As a result, businesses are able to work with better tools that support communication and productivity. Cloud-based software tools, whether in the form of chat-based communication, graphic design solutions, content creation platforms, or other assets requiring employee collaboration, can be easily accessed without limitations regarding location or even time.
For businesses, the scalable cost of these collaborative tools is also an advantage, allowing organizations to only pay for what they use.
Market Examples: AirWatch and MobileIron
Of course, the explosion in mobile devices -- and the benefits that can be realized through a connected workforce -- have led to a crowded market with many vendors offering many solutions. VMware’s AirWatch, for example, labels itself as a unified endpoint management solution.
Such a unified solution provides two key benefits. From the business perspective, it allows IT to reduce its workload by giving them one tool to implement and monitor security and management policies across all devices, which is particularly important given the multitude of different endpoints connected to a typical enterprise network. Secondly, but of no less importance, is that it gives workers a common experience across whatever devices they may need to use in the field – and that common experience is a strong factor in enabling the worker collaborations already discussed.
To further illustrate the market, MobileIron is another unified endpoint management platform solution that eases the management burden of IT departments while also enabling worker collaboration. MobileIron’s solution also reflects another consideration that’s important both for businesses and their remote workers: Privacy. With bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies becoming increasingly commonplace, MobileIron tackles privacy issues by creating a “secure container” that completely segregates personal data (private email, photos, etc.) from business data on a worker’s personal device. In companies where BYOD is allowed, providing device owners with the certainty that their personal information is secure from employers is as important as network and business application security is to the IT department – and further enables worker collaboration by providing the workers assurances that, even if they use a personal device for field work, their private information will remain private.
Cost Management Remains Important
In the past, limited communication and collaboration channels made it difficult for employees to work on projects without sitting in the same literal room. Today that’s no longer the case, and it’s inspiring a new wave of collaboration at the enterprise level. Such collaboration can yield increased benefits in efficiency to business, but only if the devices themselves can be managed efficiently and their usage costs controlled. Thus, it’s incumbent on any business with a remote workforce to think through all aspects of a connected workforce, from collaboration to costs.
At Wireless Watchdogs, we provide a variety of analyses and services that enable businesses to gain greater insights into connected devices and their costs – and help put them on the road to better worker collaboration. If you'd like to learn more about how you can implement mobile device management for your organization and get on the road to cost-effective collaboration, check out our free white paper, "A Guide to Implementing Mobile Device Management."

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Whether companies have a BYOD, COPE, or hybrid mobile device management policy, telecom management for these devices always represents a significant cost. Hardware needs to be purchased, maintained, and repaired, and security must be assured across a diverse array of enterprise devices.
Some business leaders can bristle at the prospect of paying for managed mobility services, and see it as an additional cost that comes on top of an already expensive enterprise mobile environment. While the cost of managed mobile services does represent a short-term increase, the enormous long-term cost savings that deliver ROI for managed mobility more than makes up for it -- and in the end, most companies find that these services pay for themselves.
Here's why.
Trimming the Mobile Device Fat
One misconception among reluctant business leaders is the idea that managed mobility is only additive in terms of business expenses -- but according to research on managed mobility services from Blue Hill Research, unmanaged mobility can be 20 percent more costly than a managed system. Why? The costs of unmanaged environments can be traced back to overage charges, device downtime, service support, and other strategic shortcomings that inhibit productivity and efficiency.
The study notes that a well-managed enterprise mobile environment can reduce the overall cost of each device to around $60 per month, as a general number. Divide your total mobility costs by the number of devices in your network. If the resulting number is greater than 60, you’re likely suffering from poor or absent management that is creating unnecessary cost increases.
Mobile Device IT Cost Reduction
Blue Hill further notes that the use of managed mobile services can generate a strong return in the form of IT cost savings. The study found that based on managed mobility’s ability to lower IT resource costs and carrier service expenses, a business can conservatively forecast a three-year ROI of 184 percent from its mobility management spending.
The ROI breakdown is estimated to follow these proportions:
-20 percent savings on carrier expenses in the first year
-50 percent IT overhead savings
-40 percent long-term savings on carrier expenses (after the first year)
-100 percent savings on in-house IT mobility support, due to the elimination of this IT responsibility
Improved Efficiency Over Time
While the first year of managed mobility services presents the most significant reduction of costs, business leaders should also understand that this cost savings isn’t fixed. Over time, improved management can help continue to lower costs and improve management efficiency. While Blue Hill estimates that the average company can save $21,220 in mobile management per every 1,000 devices, those companies could cut an additional $10,610 in savings in the second year, and $2,120 the third year.
These annual savings are on top of the cost reductions that take place in the same year. By the end of the third year, a company can reduce this management cost by a total of $33,950 from where it began when mobility management was implemented. This is a cost savings that companies can count on every year, as long as they continue to support their mobility management.
Mobility is a massive, enterprise-spanning asset for companies, but without proper management it can quickly become a liability. Want to keep costs under control while using mobility to accelerate your business? A mobility management solution is the way to go.

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Like it or not, mobile devices have become an integral part of the business world. Most workers own a smartphone, and companies now depend on the use of smartphones and tablets to handle day-to-day business tasks ranging from the critical to the mundane.
But this mobile environment can’t be allowed to grow and evolve without restriction. Enterprise-level businesses could face security risks and other complications created by mobile devices that aren’t effectively managed. Mobile device management (MDM) solutions were developed with these needs in mind, providing a scalable, comprehensive management solution that can regulate this mobile network while also increasing its value.
For those unfamiliar with the world of MDM, here are five key reasons why enterprises should invest in mobile device management.
1. Unmanaged Mobile Devices are a Huge Security Risk

Top 5 Reasons Why Enterprise Needs Mobile Device Management

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Mobile device usage in business continues to grow and shows no signs of stopping. This growth has created an increased demand for Mobile Device Management services. The MDM market is expected to grow to $7.3 billion by 2023.
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Datapoints related to the Internet of Things (IoT) are staggering. Depending on the source, the number of connected devices is predicted to be somewhere around 30 billion to 50 billion in 2020.

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